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Originally Posted by starrigger
Does anyone have an opinion on the Palm TX? There seem to be a fair number of them for sale on ebay.
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The TX is Palm's last actual PDA. Everything else has been a smartphone. Some of us have been hoping for a new TX model, but at this point I don't expect to see it.
It's a Palm OS Garnet (5.49, I think) device, based on a Texas Instruments OMAP ARM CPU. It has 128MB of RAM, an SD card slot, and Wifi. The screen is 320x480, with a collapsing data input area.
The TX differs from older Palm OS devices in using NVRAM, so you don't lose everything in RAM if the battery is allowed to drain. This can be useful, but has quirks.
It has the FAT32 driver introduced in the LifeDrive, and will take 4GB non-SDHC cards "out of the box"
Had the TX been available when my old Tungsten E was dying and I was looking for a replacement, I might have gotten one. It wasn't released at that point, so I got the Zodiac and have been happy. The TX will probably meet your needs save for being able to read ePub books, as I don't believe an ePub reader for Palm OS exists.
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Dennis